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In 1897, the California native went to the frozen North looking for gold. What he found instead was the great American novel

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Last week Cursor published Scaling long-running autonomous coding, an article describing their research efforts into coordinating large numbers of autonomous coding agents. One of the projects mentioned in the article …

Connie Sherburne lost her husband to a plane accident in 2020. A small bit of advice she got from an insurance company employee made a huge difference in her life for years after that.

A new extraction system from Rocq to modern, memory-safe, performant C++.

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At KotlinConf 2025, the Kotlin team showcased progress toward Rich Errors with union types. After years of watching languages slowly adopt patterns that Elm has championed since day one, it’s exciting to see Kotlin taking this significant step toward more…

My Nüborn Baby arrived in October, and now that I've had a few months to get used to it, I thought I'd write up a review, in case you were thinking of getting one for yourself.

Calculate how far you have traveled through the universe since you were born.

I've been using GitLab for years for all my private projects. Some thoughts on why it stuck.